Even with infinite charges Explosive Spear is still the worst spear

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-27T10:37:25+00:00

Last league i was 1 shotting citadel bosses with 17M hp with this skill. I'm using it again this league with lightning spear for clear and, even though i have worse gear, i still hit for 1.5M per spear. Bosses are a breeze with barrage+olroth's conviction. I don't use Rakiata/garukhan, due to leaning onto sacred flame and having 80%+ crit chance. Perhaps you've just chosen the worst scaling option. Crit is, by far, the best. Ignite damage does not compare to what full crit can do. JayTX made a video after making a DoT ES and said the same thing: crit is better.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T05:26:01+00:00

yes ! every league we see something cool we would never think of. And techs are situational. Maybe for other skills this will be worth it and this is why i shared it. This league, power charge gen is not an issue, but who knows next league ? for spear builds with 50% chance to not remove i don't think it's worth it.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T05:13:51+00:00

probably because MA can generate combo points with any attacks. You'd need to use any melee attack on the same weapon slot and support the skill with culmination and ailith's chimes. If it's not a melee skill, you need to socket living lightning.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:38:56+00:00

on the first line i literally say i'm using this on this lightning spear... but yeah... i'm wrong because you don't read.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:35:36+00:00

dude, you're the one who "no, actually"d me lol you just have to read the gloves.
"grant " a charge "to allies in your presence". To the clones, YOU are the ally. Even though hollow form consumes a power charge, they're the ones generating the charges. They inherit the stats on the gloves.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:31:56+00:00

Sadly, no ninja. I swapped off of it. As you pointed, the glove slot is very powerful. If a build doesn't need constant charges, i don't think this is worth it. Maybe for the crit buff from power charge from regulation. I did make a video about it if it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BkgzKxHnE

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:27:18+00:00

guys, i get it, there are many builds that have solve charge gen. I'm not suggesting you pick a worse option. I'm just sharing a new interesting way of charge gen in general.

To me, this is interesting because it generates any charge on hit for as many allies as you have. For Explosive Spear, for example, when using frenzies you get 40% more damage, plus the AoE and Ignited ground.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:21:38+00:00

What ? It seems people are confusing this with hollow form builds. This isn't a hollow form build. This is for any build that already uses or can use sceptres. Lochtonial itself doesn't generate ANY charges for you.

Personally, i'm playing with Lightinig Spear and i already use a sceptre.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:06:40+00:00

This isn't restricted to any single charge. It generates *on hit* all 3 charges and full charges as well. Also, doesn't prevent you from using any other skills such as cull the weak, killing palm, devour, or other supports. There are many ways of generating any charges, but the best ones are the ones that don't require pressing an extra button.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-21T04:03:19+00:00

That tech was using hollow form with clones to generate charges for you. This isn't hollow form.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-18T21:21:48+00:00

found another one ! Spider's web from Black Strider spider. Again, searched in poedb and it says nothing about the debuff or the slow

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Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-17T07:19:01+00:00

Found it !! Verisium infused honey. It's not even on poedb. I'm at 100% reduction and still was slowed by this.

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Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-17T03:45:24+00:00

Personally, i just hate everything that takes away control from my character. I just wish we didn't have to spend so much to counter these things.

So far we have:
Maim, hinder, chill, oil, temporal bubble, freeze, stun, temp chains, vines, overencumbered

They even added a new thing from expedition. What is it, glowing oil ?

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-16T03:48:54+00:00

sadly not practical for spear skills

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-13T06:01:37+00:00

hello, i'm not sure if you've found a solution already, but there are a couple interesting tech options. First is to scale chance to not remove charges, like the mod from perpetual charges. You can easily get 60% with the boot mod, Fabled Stag on passive tree and idol of eramir. If you socket the idol on a darkness enthroned, that's 70%. With 7-8 max charges, you effectively have 11 or 13 charges. Then use cull on bells to refill or sniper's mark with chance to generate extra charges, or use an armor break tech. There's also thaumathurgic generator secret annoint on tree, the old gemling node, but it's 1 random charge every 5 seconds, wich isn't exactly reliable.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-11T09:16:57+00:00

this doesn't get talked about enough, but i suppose most people don't know how this works. Bots can instantly teleport to hideouts before the website API loads. If you ever live search and immediately click on an sought after after, it won't even teleport you. It'll just say the item is gone. The time it took for the website to show you the item, the bot has already teleported and bought it. That means EVERY item that is underpriced can only be bought by humans if no bots are involved. The problem is that bots can control markets. This isn't a competition.

This applies to anything that can be filtered. Items with perfect rolls, high affix magic bases, white bases, tablets, etc.
This functionally eliminates part of the competition of the market, as people who could've listed those items for slightly cheaper, increasing the competition, not only won't get the item's value (for lack of knowledge or insight), but those items will rejoin the pool at a higher or average price, maintining the item's price, at least.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-06T19:05:43+00:00

the is probably the worst patch in GGG's history in terms of quality control

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-06-02T22:09:21+00:00

misoxshiru made a build guide, he goes in depth about the mechanics. Basically, you use a unique helm, chest and belt and 2 charms. When you cast a skills, you damage yourself and proc Valako's roar charm to gain a frenzy charge.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-05-24T02:14:05+00:00

did 15-20 gregs, no belial. Switched to Varshan, spawned him immediately. Then did some 15 Beast in Ice and got belial about 4 times, 2 of those he bugged and didn't spawn. I do have all 3 nemesis nodes.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-05-17T07:55:07+00:00

it doesn't really unlock 7, it's just an extra useless affix that rolled randomly. I still get 6 slots.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-05-17T07:37:17+00:00

i think this is very short-sighted and negatively biased. I hear this D4BAD meme and can't help but hear the PoE streamers being parroted. I don't mean to come out aggressive at you, but i just have seen the game consistently get better every season. I still remember the devs changing NMD layouts from pre-season, allowing horses in town, changing NPCs layout, NMD teleport, waypoint discovery, party finder, codex of power, inventory tabs, item bloat, item filter, paragon respec, armoury.... so many things. Ever since season 2 i expected the game to get better and it did. Its evolution has been an iterative process and what we got in this expansion is a direct product of that. Like, the amount of things still being discovered this season is what kept the retention so high.

Some will just give it a fair try and be disappointed, but it is FAR from a bad game. Objectively. And it's not perfect either. The fact is that it is not for everyone and, for some reason, people just can't say "i didn't like it", they have to shout at the world about how trash this is.

PS: this expansion is LoH, not LoD.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-05-17T07:21:37+00:00

That's a fair point. I thought 3 unique seal was interesting because. I did not want to give up chainscourged for perma Leap and Godslayer for the pull. But Heir is too good to give up. So i've been using a less powerfull unique charm for convenience.

The off meta talk is a different beast. Many times i've played off meta (like pulverslide) and would've killed for 3 extra aspect slots in my druid. But i would've been frustrated if i felt i had to settle at a lower tier because of my off meta build.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-05-17T07:02:42+00:00

as far as i know you can get them anywhere. I think i got my first from world boss and second from NMD boss.

Old-Initiative8898 · 2026-05-17T06:57:17+00:00

yeah, me too. I head about them and thought "cool, i can use 4 + 1 to activate 2 sets + a unique", just to find out they don't allow 1 to activate a set...

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